Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden…

— Mark Twain

I think it's fair to ask how truthful a film is as opposed to how factual it is.

— Bennett Miller

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

— Nadine Gordimer

The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and…

— P. J. O'Rourke

At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying…

— P. J. O'Rourke

To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered…

— Terry Eagleton

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain…

— Glenway Wescott

A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every…

— Walter Isaacson

“Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity…

— Christina Engela

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

— Carl Gustav Hempel

... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring,…

— Toni Cade Bambara

For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

— John Shelby Spong

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species'…

— E. O. Wilson